The 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion included three Bonhoeffer sessions devoted to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with one of those sessions held jointly with the Niebuhr Society. Session 1: Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit and Niebuhr Society Theme: The Revolutionary Gospel: Paul Lehmann, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Reinhold Niebuhr in the Context of Union [...]
Bonhoeffer Sessions at the 2023 AAR Annual Meeting (San Antonio, TX)
AAR Schedule: Meeting Times for Bonhoeffer Sessions at AAR, November 2022 (Denver, CO)
Session A19-208 Religion and Catastrophe: Bonhoeffer in Comparative Perspective Saturday, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM (In Person) Convention Center-Mile High 4C (Lower Level) In this session, scholars engage Bonhoeffer’s thought through a series of comparative studies in conversation with diverse traditions of religious and ecological inquiry. The papers examine Bonhoeffer in comparison with Sufi Muslim [...]
Topics:
Christian Ethics,
Christology, Bonhoeffer and Political Life,
Community and Witness,
Creation and Ecotheology,
Interfaith and Comparative Theology,
Political Life and Theology,
Political Life and Theology, Biographies and Portraits,
Race and Anti-Racism,
Social Ethics
Adam Vander Tuig, Dallas Gingles, David Gides, David S. Robinson, Hans Harmakaputra, Htoi San Lu, Karen Guth, Mac Loftin, Matthew Puffer, Michael Mawson 
Book Announcement: The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts (by Karen V. Guth)
A new book by Dr. Karen Guth, Co-Chair of the Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit of the American Academy of Religion Cambridge University Press, July 2022 What do we do when a beloved comedian known as “America’s Dad” is convicted of sexual assault? Or when the man who wrote “all men are created equal” [...]
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit – Statement of Purpose & Steering Committee
Statement of Purpose The “Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit” of the American Academy of Religion seeks to explore the historical and contemporary interface between theology and public life within the context of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s legacy in theology. Together with professional societies affiliated in the study of Bonhoeffer’s life and thought, the Unit has explored [...]